How to: Re-enable PSTV Whitelist on 3.60 PS Vita, with HENkaku

Note from Wololo: The PSTV Whitelist is a trick on the PS TV that lets you play more Vita games than the device normally lets you. The PS TV has a whitelist of games and will refuse to start a given Vita game if it’s not in the compatibility list. This prevents you from playing Vita games that would normally play just fine on the PS TV. This trick solves that, by making ALL Vita games compatible on the PS TV.

As a reminder, you’re messing with some critical files of your PS Vita here, although the Whitelist cleans up after a reboot, meaning there’s no big danger of an irreversible issue, proceed at your own risk.

Update:There is now a HENkaku app to do all of this for you at no effort, courtesy of Kankertje. Download Vita TV Whitelister, install it through HENkaku, run it, and you’re done.

The tutorial is left below for reference, but again, you can now use the app instead! This tutorial on How to Re-enable PSTV Whitelist on 3.60 PS Vita was initially published by /Talk member Pixelbutts. You can find the original post here.

So with the release of HENkaku, many of us are excited, especially myself since PSTV has support for this.

1) Install HENkaku, the method is quite simple but in case you need a visual method you can view the video below: (Dont let the errors worry you. They will be fixed soon enough.)

2) Open the newly made Molecular Shell bubble and start an FTP session (hit select)

3) Take the “list_launch_vita.dat” and place it on the desktop (easy access)

4) Open FileZilla and connect to the PSTV (the IP to connect to and the port are displayed on the screen)

5) Navigate to “ur0:game\launch\” in filezilla

6) Drag and drop the “list_launch_vita.dat” over to the PSTV and overwrite it (feel free to back up the “list_launch_vita.dat” currently on the system and put it somewhere safe if you feel the need to)

7) Close the FTP session on the PSTV (circle – or X depending on where you are)

8) Insert your game card of choice that is not PSTV compatible without the whitelist

Vita Cartridges are working great! The only problem comes from digital downloads now. For instance, Neptunia 1 and Tetris are not working. Any ideas on what it would take to get those off the white list, or are digital downloads hard coded to not work maybe?

What did you use to install the new whitelist hack? The app or the tutorial? I haven’t tried the HENkaku whitelist hack myself yet, but I’ve used a PSTV with 3.52 and the Mr.Gas whitelist hack enabled and it worked fine for digital Vita games. Crazy Market booted up without issue, although I recently downloaded the PSP game Crazy Taxi Fare Wars. While it worked on my Vita handheld, it didn’t work on the PSTV.

Also you can achieve The whitelist via app.db, going to ur0/shell/app.db, and make the new file sending to your email via calendar app. Finally apply the app.db metod to your file and put the new file in ur0/shell/ after has deleted the old file

Works with Castlevania: Dracula X Chronicles (which I’ve never understood why it wasn’t Whitelisted already) but not for the Vita version of Gal*Gun Double Peace (which does work with the analog sticks and buttons, no touchscreen necessary)

If you’re trying to run Ps1/PSP Games (like Valkyria Chronicles 2) you might also have to replace the “list_launch_emu.dat” in the same folder. Content: format_version:001 list_type:b LVER00101

That should make those games run, worked for me.

That being said, is there any way to protect those whitelists so that they dont get changed ever again? I guess i could take the card out of my pstv and load new games I purchased on the store on my vita and then put the card back, but not everyone has both systems and also I’m very lazy ^^

Hi excuse me with this Whitelist, I can play all the games of psvita on ps tv , cause I going to buy one but the specifics games that I want seems that doesn’t run it like (Project Diva Hatsune Miku X . AoT, GRush and others) that’s why I Am Asking can someone answer me plz

Hey all, does the pstv mail exploit still work? I get the files onto my pstv ok, but the #0 file displays as ‘Done’, instead of #0! Clicking on it does nothing. Anyone else have this problem? Thanks all

It should work fine as long as your Vita is 3.60. Anything above that will not work. If you’re on the right version and it’s still not working, try getting HENkaku and downloading the blacklister app. Its v2 option is a permanent fix.

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